Special Reports

2015

The report reflects the work of the Greek Ombudsman in 2015 on the external monitoring of forced returns, according to its special competence under Art. 23 (6) of Law 3907/2011 and Art. 8 (6) of the Return Directive. The report contains the independent authority’s findings on return operations and pre-removal detention procedures in 2015 and its recommendations for improvement of the return system’s effectiveness with respect of legality and human rights.

This report reflects the activity of the Ombudsman in 2015, as the National Torture Prevention Mechanism (NPM), according to its special competence provided by Law 4228/2014 (article 2). The NPM, during 2015, focused on three key areas: Analysing the scope and extent of its competence, good practices and search for collaborations, in the direction of the efficient exercise of the competences- defining the methodology of the investigation, collection of data, processing and presentation of findings and recommendations- establishing the criteria for prioritising the selection of the detention facilities to be visited.

In this Special Report, the Greek Ombudsman describes the experience it has accumulated in matters pertaining to motor tax and to off the road declarations. In addition, it makes recommendations aiming at improving the legislative framework and enhancing compliance of the administrative practices with the principles of administrative law.